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> When the workshop goes over time or is over too soon
> When the trainer takes up too much space
> When participants ignore instructions and requests from the training team
> When participants find it difficult to distance themselves from evaluating their personal emotional experience of an exercise
> When individual group members or the whole group view the trainers as models of “nonviolent people”
> When I’m running an exercise, I’m not sure how far I can “push” the participant to get more out of them without them thinking that I’m pushing them in some particular direction
> When colleagues from the training team voice different opinions
> When a participant takes over moderating the discussion
> Unspoken needs
> Uneven distribution of shared time
> Unclear line between the roles of trainers and participants (i.e. confusion created by the trainers)
> The participants are overly ‘politically correct’
> Team coordination
> Summing up/offering commentary/assessing
> Subgroup(s) within the group
> Stage fright when speaking to the participants as the trainer
> Quick reactions
> Prejudice and distrust towards the trainers from the very start (due to their age, nationality, gender, etc.)
> Poor working conditions (organisational problems)
> Poor concentration
> Passivity, silence, drop in energy level
> Participants preoccupied with themselves and the relationships within the group, excluding the training team is excluded to the detriment of the workshops
> Part of the group does not speak up at the workshop
> Not listening to each other during plenary discussion
> Loss of concentration/overexertion
> Looking for the team “leader”
> Lack of support from colleagues on the team
> Lack of initiative
> Lack of free time (for informal socialising with the group, self-reflection, etc.)
> Lack of experience
> Lack of energy
> Insufficient time to prepare the training content in detail
> Instructions
> How to constructively respond to criticism by a participant about the content of the training
> Great variation in energy levels among participants (one day they want more, the next they have no energy for any activity)
> For multi-layered exercises, getting to the desired level during evaluation
> Fear that the training team is taking up too much time and space at the workshop
> Fear that the group may reject the methods
> Fear of too much responsibility
> Fear of silence at the workshop
> Fear of psychological harm and self-harm
> Fear of participants being overly motivated
> Fear of mistakes and oversights
> Fear of making participants re-live traumatic experiences
> Fear of expressing intense feelings of frustration (anger, impatience, disappointment, etc.)
> Fear of conflict within the training team
> Fear of admitting your mistake
> Failure to uphold common agreement on cooperation/rules
> Expecting too much from more experienced trainers
> Estimating time needed for exercises
> ears
> During verbal evaluation of the day/workshop at the training, a participant says “pass”
> Domination
> Dominant individuals
> Dissatisfaction with the content, expecting too much of yourself as the trainer
> Disagreements about values within the training team
> Different understanding of the role of trainer – loyalty within the training team
> Different approaches, methodologies, preparation styles and tempos in the training team
> Confusion
> Competitiveness among the participants
> Asking the trainers for the “point”
> Addressing feelings of like or dislike for individual participants
> Additional organisational or other tasks
> A feeling of unequal distribution of responsibilities
> A bad atmosphere
> “We” speech